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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Morson, John, Dom, O.C.S.O.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1967-1968

Volume: 10 item(s); 11 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Morson, John, Dom, O.C.S.O.".

Biography

Dom John Morson was a Trappist monk of Mount St. Bernard's Abbey in Leicester, England. He served as Trappist Definitor for England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. He was a regular contributor to Cistercian Studies. He writes from Rome. (Source: The School of Charity, p. 330.)

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Related Information and Links

See also published letters from Merton to Morson in The School of Charity, pp. 330-333.

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Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1966/05/21 TLS[x]to Fox, JamesI enclose the <u>Imprimi potest</u> for an article (<u>Apologies to an Unbeliever</u>) by Fr. Louis  [see "Censors Reports" for "Apologies to an Unbeliever" for original letter and Imprimi Potest / one page of letter and one page Imprimi Potest]
 1967/02/27 TALSto MertonFather Beyer, of the Gregorian, who helps me very much with his advice, has been reading a report   
 1967/03/29 (#01)transcriptfrom MertonYour letter was dated the 27th of February and postmarked the 28th, and yet I did not receive itYes  
 1967/03/29 (#02)TLS[x]from MertonYour letter was dated the 27th of February and postmarked the 28th, and yet I did not receive itYes [copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2]
 1967/04/24 TLSto MertonThere was not need for any apology. Indeed it is now my turn to apologize for being so very late   
 1967/05/04 (#01)TL[c]from MertonThanks for your letter, and I am glad that my notes on the theological training of monks were notYes  
 1967/05/04 (#02)TLS[x]from MertonThanks for your letter, and I am glad that my notes on the theological training of monks were notYes [copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2]
 1968/07/05 TALSto MertonRather more than a year ago I was urged to collect a few 'sententiae peritorum' on the place   
 1968/07/12 TLS[x]from MertonI have rather hastily rewritten the notes on Monastic Theology. They are now perhaps a little less  [copied from a photocopy from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2 / verso copied from original letter from Fr. Martin Clayon of Mount Saint Bernard Abbey in Leicester, England, (who copied Morson letter) to Br. Patrick Hart, 1987/02/28]
 1968/08/26 TLSto MertonThank you very much for the article (you say "notes on Monastic Theology"), which you sent me   
        

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